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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The city of Orlando is moving forward with plans to create a memorial on the property of the Pulse nightclub, where 49 people…

By HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Officials say Russia fired 11 Shahed drones against Ukrainian targets, reaching deep into…

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of books are being banned or restricted by U.S. prisons, according to a new…

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN Associated Press TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Analysts say the removal of China’s foreign and defense ministers appears to enforce…

LONDON (AP) — A former British police officer has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 12 years after he pleaded guilty to over…

BERLIN (AP) — The German Cabinet has approved legislation that is intended to ease deportations of unsuccessful asylum-seekers. The draft…

By GERALD IMRAY and NQOBILE NTSHANGASE Associated Press SPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — A company official says more than 100 miners have escaped from…

By JASON DEAREN and MICHELLE R. SMITH Associated Press People convicted of crimes related to domestic extremism face far shorter prison terms than…

By ALEX ROSENBERG of NerdWallet Medicare Supplement Insurance, or Medigap, can help pay for Medicare Part A and/or Part B copays, coinsurance and…

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say the estranged son of Nashville’s police chief, who was wanted in the shooting of two police officers, has…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Polish politician Donald Tusk is in Brussels seeking to repair his country’s ties with the European Union. Tusk arrived in…

By ELAINE KURTENBACH AP Business Writer BANGKOK (AP) — World shares were mixed Wednesday after China pledged more spending to energize its economy.…

By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is marking a year in office but he has little reason to celebrate.…

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — China has announced plans to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities say they are “actively” searching for an asylum-seeker of Palestinian origin after media reported that he…

BERLIN (AP) — Prosecutors say a man with a previous conviction for membership in the Islamic State group has been detained in Germany and is being…

By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Relatives of victims of alleged war crimes committed by Myanmar’s military have filed a…

By NAJIB JOBAIN, SAMY MAGDY and RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees warned Wednesday…

By CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is hosting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a state visit…

MOSCOW (AP) — The upper house of the Russian parliament has revoked the country’s ratification of a global nuclear test ban. Moscow has…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo have been invited to meet with top European Union officials to try to breathe life into talks…

By KAREEM CHEHAYEB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has met with top Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad…

By KANIS LEUNG Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong’s leader has cut taxes for some homebuyers and stock traders to boost markets as the…

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Environmentalists have slammed Malaysia’s move to let Australian miner Lynas import and process rare earths…

By JUSTIN KABUMBA and ZANE IRWIN Associated Press BULENGO, Congo (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been displaced over the past…

BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have broken off their search for four crew members missing since their British-flagged cargo ship sank a day…

By JOSÉ ANTONIO RIVERA and MARÍA VERZA Associated Press ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Hurricane Otis slammed into Mexico’s southern Pacific coast as…

By ROD McGUIRK Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A cruise operator that failed to cancel a voyage from Sydney that led to a COVID-19…

By MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s Supreme Court will rule Wednesday whether a law forcing transgender people to have their…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Snow has started falling in the northern Cascades and Rockies in the first major snowstorm…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners says two officers involved in a struggle that ended with the death of teacher…

By SOPHIA TAREEN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A Palestinian American woman whose 6-year-old son was killed in what police are calling a hate…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Richard Roundtree, the trailblazing actor for Black filmmakers who starred as the…

By LISA RATHKE Associated Press LUDLOW, Vt. (AP) — As winter approaches, a Vermont ski town that was hit by severe flooding this summer wants to…

By THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Supporting Israel has leapt to a top priority for evangelicals in the leadoff Republican…

By WAYNE PARRY Associated Press HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — A decade after they were envisioned in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy’s destruction, two…

By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press In some states, higher-income families can now use taxpayer money to cover private school tuition — and…

By LISA MASCARO, STEPHEN GROVES, FARNOUSH AMIRI and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans chose Rep. Mike Johnson as their…

By The Associated Press Russia has issued carefully calibrated criticism of both sides in the war between Israel and Hamas. But the conflict also is…

By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — Honolulu officials have installed a new interpretive plaque for four large boulders in the center…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom met with China’s seniormost diplomat Wang Yi Wednesday and displayed…

By YURI KAGEYAMA AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — Toyota, Honda, Nissan and other Japanese automakers are serious about rolling out battery electric…

By ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press HAIPHONG, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese automaker Vinfast has plunged right into the crowded and hypercompetitive…

By DAN GELSTON AP Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Corbin Carroll went 3 for 4 with two RBIs and two runs scored, and the Arizona Diamondbacks…

By VIN A. CHERWOO AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and had three assists as the…

By HUIZHONG WU Associated Press BANGKOK (AP) — China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the…

WACO, Texas (AP) — A federal jury has found Baylor University negligent in a Title IX lawsuit and awarded $270,000 to a former student who alleged…

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria says that fighting there has reached its worst point in years, with devastating…

By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — A team of scientists has unveiled the possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration finally has a Senate-confirmed leader. The Senate voted 98-0 on Tuesday to approve President…

By BRUCE SCHREINER and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear and Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron have sparred over tax…

By JARI TANNER Associated Press HELSINKI (AP) — Finnish investigators say they believe an anchor of a Chinese container ship was dislodged and…

By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden won’t file to have his name appear on the 2024 New Hampshire Democratic…

HOUSTON (AP) — Flights have been delayed and canceled at Houston’s Hobby Airport as crews clean up after two private jets clipped wings when they…

By TRISHA AHMED Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A former medical resident at the Mayo Clinic is charged with fatally poisoning his wife, a…

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Israel is vowing again to destroy Hamas, rejecting calls for a cease-fire at a…

By LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has struck down recent provisions of New York City’s gun restrictions as…

By MATT O’BRIEN and HALELUYA HADERO AP Technology Writers NEW YORK (AP) — A new report warns that the proliferation of child sexual abuse…

By MEGAN JANETSKY Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Flight data shows that more than 260 charter flights believed to be carrying migrants from…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A September 2024 date has been set for two teenagers to be tried as adults on murder and other charges in the fatal video-recorded…

By LEA SKENE and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Maryland judge who was shot to death in his driveway last Thursday…

By AMY BETH HANSON and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A 36-year-old man who was living with an Arizona teenager who…

By JONEL ALECCIA AP Health Writer An outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to bagged, precut onions recalled by a California firm has sickened at…

By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Democrat who’s trying to unseat Mississippi’s Republican governor says the…

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER Associated Press HONOLULU (AP) — A trial is underway for a Hawaii couple accused of fraudulently living for decades…

By VALERIE GONZALEZ Associated Press McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Attorney General has filed a lawsuit over the breach of the state’s…

By STEVE LeBLANC Associated Press Scientists, lawmakers and those who make their living from Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay are teaming up to hunt…

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Mexican government is sending 300 National Guard troopers to bolster the southern state of Guerrero, where a local police…

By AAMER MADHANI, LOLITA C. BALDOR, and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Tuesday that “prudent contingency…

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The state of Florida is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to block lower court rulings that prohibit the enforcement of a new law…

Associated Press AMIZMIZ, Morocco (AP) — In a town near the epicenter of the earthquake that struck Morocco last month, residents are protesting as…

By GARY D. ROBERTSON and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Republicans have closed in on enacting new…

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House scrapped plans to have the new wave band the B-52s perform at…

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and TARA COPP Associated…

CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) — Oregon State University officials have given the go-ahead to people on campus to resume activities after warning them on…

By REGINA GARCIA CANO Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela’s government escalated attacks Tuesday on the past weekend’s…

By AMY BETH HANSON Associated Press HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The first major snowstorm of the season is expected to hit the northern Cascades and…

by PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Deion Sanders certainly enjoyed the spoof of Deion Sanders in a recent skit on “ Saturday…

By DAVID SHARP Associated…

By BARBARA ORTUTAY AP Technology Writer Dozens of U.S. states, including California and New York, are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for harming young…

By MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California regulators have revoked the license of a robotaxi service owned by General…

By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer Aviation experts say the incident in which an off-duty pilot tried to disable a jetliner in midflight renews…

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the…

By JOEY CAPPELLETTI and ED WHITE Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Police say a man dressed in black who works for a group that conducts…

By STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer Everton chairman Bill Kenwright has died at the age of 78. He was a British theater impresario and film producer…